Exception: Failed to parse .recently-used.xbel

[Manu]

As I don't want an recent files history on my box, I changed ~/.recently-used.xbel to a directory:

drw------- 2 manu manu 4096 2010-09-09 12:21 .recently-used.xbel

see here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=375510

Gnome-split crashes at startup with this exception:

 DANGER: Gtk-WARNING, Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/manu/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Erreur de lecture du fichier « /home/manu/.recently-used.xbel » : est un dossier.
UncaughtException in thread: main
  Thread ID = 1
  Thread prority = 5
Exception stacktrace:
org.gnome.glib.FatalError: Gtk-WARNING
Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/manu/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Erreur de lecture du fichier « /home/manu/.recently-used.xbel » : est un dossier.
        at org.gnome.gtk.GtkFileChooserButton.gtk_file_chooser_button_new(Native Method)
        at org.gnome.gtk.GtkFileChooserButton.createFileChooserButton(GtkFileChooserButton.java:64)
        at org.gnome.gtk.FileChooserButton.<init>(FileChooserButton.java:78)
        at org.gnome.split.gtk.widget.SplitWidget.<init>(SplitWidget.java:137)
        at org.gnome.split.gtk.MainWindow.<init>(MainWindow.java:187)
        at org.gnome.split.GnomeSplit.buildUserInterface(GnomeSplit.java:182)
        at org.gnome.split.GnomeSplit.<init>(GnomeSplit.java:113)
        at org.gnome.split.GnomeSplit.main(GnomeSplit.java:334)

[1]+ Exit 1 gnome-split

IMHO accessing recent files is not a must have and the exception should be handled

Thanks

[Guillaume Mazoyer (respawneral)]

I agree with you. Someone already report such a bug.
The problem is due to the way that java-gnome is handling warning from the gtk+ native library.

In few words, java-gnome considers as an error the warning of gtk+.
Is it a wrong behavior? I don't know but it should be discussed.

The problem would not appear if this long time bug would have been resolved.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305325

[Manu (manubing)]

Hi Guillaume,

Thanks for your feedback and links to java-gnome issue.

I fully understand the problem caused by the handling of this error, but in the meantime there should be a way to catch this exception upfront in GnomeSplit, no?

Manu

[Guillaume Mazoyer (respawneral)]

There is probably a way to catch that exception yes.
I'm going to work on it and do a bug fix release when this bug will be in the world of death.

[Manu (manubing)]

Ok, Thank you Guillaume.